In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death,… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase?… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
I have to deplore the systematic manner in which the literature of Europe has continued to put out of sight our obligations to the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works.… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years? — John William Draper Copy Share Image
